I.E.D. ANSWER = AIRLIFTS?: "Here's a way to keep trucks from being blown up in Iraq: stop driving 'em, and fly instead. The roadside bombs known as improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, are responsible for 100 American casualties per month -- despite the American military's best efforts to detect or shut down the bombs. 'To vault the problem, [Air Force Gen. John] Gen. John Jumper is volunteering the service's C-130 fleet to take a substantial part of the Army's truck traffic off the roads of Iraq and move those supplies by air,' Aviation Week reports."

(Via Defense Tech.)